A rezone hearing is scheduled for the Pinehurst Safeway project tomorrow morning at 9 AM (Tuesday, June 23rd) at the Office of the Hearing Examiner (700 5th Avenue, Suite 4000). You can read more about the hearing here and the history of the Safeway project here.
As most of you know, our community has been negotiating with Safeway regarding the development of a new Pinehurst store for over three years. This meeting is the culmination of all our hard work and it represents many significant concessions by Safeway.
If the hearing tomorrow is successful, the next step is for the Hearing Examiner to recommend the rezone and for the full Seattle City Council to vote on the rezone. If they then approve the rezone, Safeway expects to break ground in early 2010 and for the new store to open in 2010.
Brad Green who is a long time (20+ year) Pinehurst neighbor, who lives next to the Safeway site and who has been involved in the negotiations with Safeway since the beginning of the process will be speaking on behalf of the community.
If you can attend the meeting and speak in support of this project, or if you can e-mail the Hearing Examiner (Sue.Tanner@seattle.gov) in support of the project, I strongly encourage you to do so. There is a tiny handful of people who do not live in Pinehurst who oppose any change in zoning in the City of Seattle and who have been fighting this project since its inception. We think they have stopped their threats to the project, but we cannot rest until the new store is open.
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